COLLECTION OF
QUOTATIONS
ON THE INTERNET
|
|
THE MOST EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF QUOTATIONS ON THE INTERNET |
| Home | Biographical Index | Reading List | Search | Site Notes | Varying Hare Books | | |||
| GIGA Quotes | Quotes by Topic | Authors by Date | | |||
One tongue is sufficient for a woman. - attributed to [Women] Only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love, By name to come call'd charity, the soul Of all the rest; then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shall possess A Paradise within thee, happier far. - [Conduct] Only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love, By name to come call'd charity, the soul Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far. - [Conduct] Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek. - [Singers] Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child! - [Shakespeare] Praise from an enemy smells of craft. - [Praise] Prudence is that virtue by which we discern what is proper to be done under the various circumstances of time and place. - [Prudence] Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease. - [Retirement] Sense of pleasure we may well Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine, But live content, which is the calmest life; But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience. - [Pain] She that has that is clad in complete steel. - [Chastity] Short retirement urges sweet return. - [Separation] Sin and her shadow, death. - [Sin] Solitude is sometimes best society. - [Solitude] Solitude sometimes is the best society; and short retirement urges sweet returns. - [Solitude] Spirits live insphered, in regions mild, of calm and serene air. - [Spirits] Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, and Laughter, holding both his sides. - [Laughter] Stand fast * * * And all temptation to transgress repel. - [Courage] Such a numerous host Fled not in silence through the frighted deep, With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded. - [Defeat] Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow. - [Smiles] Swinish gluttony never looks to heaven amidst its gorgeous feast; but with besotted, base ingratitude, cravens and blasphemes his feeder. - [Gluttony] Tears such as angels weep? - [Tears] Th' invention all admir'd, and each, how he To be th' inventor miss'd; so easy it seem'd, Once found, which yet unfound most would have thought Impossible. - [Invention] That forbidden tree, whose mortal taste brought death into the world, and all our woe. - [Trees] That grounded maxim, so rife and celebrated in the mouths of wisest men, that to the public good private respects must yield. - [Patriotism] That power which erring men call chance. - [Chance] Displaying page 7 of 30 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 [7] 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
|
|
